Fort Worth weekly gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1887-09-02

Suctlon-SO DON fear II trt. cars leak
SIS they certainly will 8 little. Nothing
can De inner than fruit thus put up 'for
the FAIRS and similar uses For the table
We have decided to use pint cans, so as
10 eat the entire contents Of g can when
lrst opened. Then one can count on
putting up strawberries, rasp5erries and
o!ackberries and ind them good.
ORANGE AND LEMON PEF1
Boil the peel until tender, CHANGING
the water twice; make q syrup with q
pound CT sugar ard 8 gill Of the Juice Of
either, and boil until it reaches Whist is
known TO confectiOners as the "smsIl
thread" degree, Oh is slsO 2I3 degrees
Fahrenheit. The lest for this not having
a thermometer) is tina. when touched
with the fore finger it will pull out into s
small thread. Put in the peeIs snd boil
f! twenty minutes; let them stand over
night in the syrup; the mex. day take out
the peel, dip quickly 10 boiling vster.
dry on napkin thickly sprinkled
with powdered sugar. Have the pieces
! CT peel as large a. possible for cO1ven-
Ierce in handling. Stand the seive in
/ the oven, lesVe the door open, and dry at
gentle heat for twentv-four hours.
/ Inc next day make 8 fresh syrup with
/ pint OF sugar snd g Gill of water: boi.
/ ana skim until it will dr2w out like
| thread put in the peel, give one boil:
dra!1 as much candy from them as posi-
Die and dry as before in 2 slow oven,
leaving the door partially open for
tWenty-four hours. The first syrup can
be used for making other preserves and
need not be wasted.
CITROH PRESERVE.
4
six pounds of CItrOn slice four lemons
and Doll them in wster until they look
clear; drain and put them in dish with
clear water until they are wanted. Tie 8
quarter of q pound OF bruised ginger
root IN muslin cloth aud boil in the
water in which the lemons were boiled.
with another pint added, until the water
IS alghIy favored; take out the BAG of
ginger, put in six pounds OF sugar and
Doll and skim until no more skum arises
then put in the pieces OF citron and the
slices Of lemon. Boil them in the syrup
until quite transparent. If intended for
preserves seal up in cans at once.
RICHES.
IN cleaning brass or copper use vinegar
and salt.
4 small piece of butter placed in starch
Is said to give s line polish
good cement to close the cracks in
stoves Is made by mixing wood ashes and
salt.
Sponge cske-Ooe cup of sugar and
three eggs, beat well, and add one cup of
hour and one teaspOOnfUl OF baking DOW
der; NIX well and bake.
hali-cup ammonia to pail OF warm
water will cleanse hard-nnished walls
nicely; OF course the water should be
change when much sUIled
Graham pudding-Two cups Of graham
hour, one cup Of molasses, one cup sweet
milk, one cup chopped raisins, two tea |
spoOnfus soda. Steam three hours.
TO prevent bread from drying and mold
ing wrap in clean cloth when taken from
the oven and stand the loaves on end an |
I'll cold. Keep it in closely covered tin |
box
To Make Corn Fritters-Grate twelve |
ears OF corn, scraping the ears with s /
silver knife SO that all the milk may be /
removed. Mix the pulp with three eggs
and one teacupful Of flour Fry inIo
drippings.
Water Crackers-One pound of dcur, |
three ounces OF butter; add sweet milk |
or water to make stiff paste; beat u.
smooth with rolling-pin, roll thin, cut
IN small round cakes and bake
The pest OF ants.-Dry sulphur
sprinkled around and in all c7evices of
closets and floors, and the ants Will |
disappear in short time. Keep the
sulphur well sprinkled
To keep moths out of the piano put
pieces OF gum camphor about the sizes Of
q walnut, wrapped in tissue paper, in the
interior corners of the instrument. 1t
will gradually evaporste, and must be
once or twice year.
Frozen apple-Peel dozen large, ripe,
tart apples, quarter and remove the seeds,
crate and mix with pound of sugar, and
the Juice OF SIX oranges-set on ice until
very cold-pour in pint of ice lemonade.
CRATE IN one nutmeg; freeze.
Grab apples preserYe-TO one pound OF
the apples take one pound OF sugar, the
il ice of 8 lemon, and little syrup made
from common apples. Boil the sugar in
the syl Up and skim clear; prick the crab
spples and put them in this syrup, boil
until straw will run through them, and
seal up, being careful TO cover the fruit in
the jars with the syrup.
Frozen PeacheS-Pare peaches and re
move the seeds. Pound the kernels to q
paste; to every two pounds Of peaches
allow pound OF sugar, which mix with
the pounded kernels. Put in a qusrt OF
water and boil until it is ricn thfck
syrup, strain, ana stand aside TO cool.
When cold, add it TO the peaches, well
put in & freezer and freeze.
Serve in shauow glasses, with acid idly
cake,
Veal croquets with string beans Chop
40 two pounds of cold roast veal with
two boiled sweet-breads; moisten them
with little clear soup and bind together
with yelks Of two eggs; season with
OF chopped parsley, salt and
cayenne; roll the mass into cones, dip
them in beaten egg, roll in crumbs and
fry in hot ia. Arrange neatly on
dish with small ends upright, around
them put s border Of string beans, boiled
and nicely seasoned, and serve.
Lemon Jelly-Ope and one-half cups
sugar, half cup butter, beat to cream, half
cup milk, two and one-hsf cups -four,
two teaspoonfuls baking powder, three
eggs, well beaten; bake in sheets or in
Jelly tins The ielly-one cup Of sugar,
one egg; CRATE the yellow rind and use
with the juice Of one lemon, one table
spoonful Of water, one teaspoonful CT
-four; place the dish in q kettle of boiling
water and let it thicken; when cool,
spread between the cakes.
Fresh Turnip Seed.
Headquarters oEturuip seed, all vsrie